I used to live in Bakersfield, where the mexican gardeners at our apartment complex would lop off parts of our cactus to eat because it's used in mexican dishes, taking the round flat parts away in those brown paper towels you get in huge rolls. When I moved in, my roomate told me they did that and I called him a racist prick.

And then I caught them farking taking parts of our goddamned cactus.

Someone probably ate the stolen rare cactus. Delicious.

/I would steal a cactus pear//Our cactus died, they cut too much off of it eventually

SevenizGud:Uhm, so someone cut the top off of a deformed one of these, eh?

[www.wildnatureimages.com image 600x399]

Wow. Monumental loss. You can tell how rare they are. A recent estimate for Pima County put their numbers at a precarious 100 million.

/molehill is molehillish

Those are NOT the rare crested variety of saguaro . Surrender your shoes, and walk home through the desert, barefoot. People who vandalize rare species on public land or private land that's not their own should face some serious consequences. And you should too, just for promoting ignorance and vandalism.

SevenizGud:Uhm, so someone cut the top off of a deformed one of these, eh?

*takes bite of the delicious troll bait*

no, a crested saguaro is pretty rare. depending on what estimates you believe, these occur anywhere 1 in 50 thousand, 1 in 100,000, or 1 in 400,000. whatever the number is, they are pretty rare. and supposedly they are studied due to a genetic malfunction that -- cliche approaching -- "may hold the key to ending cancer".

eihter way, whomever did it is a douchebag. the mentality of destroying something just to be able to sleep knowing they destroyed something is just asinine.

Fell In Love With a Chair:I used to live in Bakersfield, where the mexican gardeners at our apartment complex would lop off parts of our cactus to eat because it's used in mexican dishes, taking the round flat parts away in those brown paper towels you get in huge rolls. When I moved in, my roomate told me they did that and I called him a racist prick.

And then I caught them farking taking parts of our goddamned cactus.

Someone probably ate the stolen rare cactus. Delicious.

/I would steal a cactus pear//Our cactus died, they cut too much off of it eventually

Oznog:Fell In Love With a Chair: I used to live in Bakersfield, where the mexican gardeners at our apartment complex would lop off parts of our cactus to eat because it's used in mexican dishes, taking the round flat parts away in those brown paper towels you get in huge rolls. When I moved in, my roomate told me they did that and I called him a racist prick.

And then I caught them farking taking parts of our goddamned cactus.

Someone probably ate the stolen rare cactus. Delicious.

/I would steal a cactus pear//Our cactus died, they cut too much off of it eventually

SevenizGud:Uhm, so someone cut the top off of a deformed one of these, eh?[www.wildnatureimages.com image 600x399]Wow. Monumental loss. You can tell how rare they are. A recent estimate for Pima County put their numbers at a precarious 100 million./molehill is molehillish

The North American Douchecanoe isn't particularly rare either. The last census estimated there were 982,154 in Pima County alone.

SevenizGud:Uhm, so someone cut the top off of a deformed one of these, eh?[.... & etc.]

Saguaros are protected for a reason. They are not -currently- endangered because they are protected by Federal law. The reason they are protected by Federal law is that it can take them around 35 years to produce any flowers, seventy-five years to grow an arm, and over a -century- to reach full size. However, it would only take a few assholes in a handful of years to basically wipe out every saguaro in the Sonoran desert. Which is, as you may or may not know, the only desert in the world where they are found naturally.